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• Journal of Discourses/5/27
  ...e importance to many, are pregnant with meaning, are full of interest, and are of the utmost importance to the Saints that dwell in these valleys, and to ...t and precious principles of eternal truth, like pearls and precious gems, are often hid from the view of the human family.
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• Journal of Discourses/5/34
  ...tize and do as I have done, prepare your backs for a good whipping, if you are such as the Lord loves. But if you will take my advice, you will stand by t ...ou did before you lost the Spirit of Christ; for when men apostatize, they are left to grovel in the dark.
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• Journal of Discourses/5/39
  ...ith a company of his men, came there. This is a species of communism; they are called "Communists," believing, with Mr. Owen, in a community of goods. The ...ns, built school-houses, opened farms, and have organized a government and are prospering in all the blessings and immunities of civilized life. Not only
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• Journal of Discourses/5/61
  ...nciples are really true and received from a proper source, or whether they are false. ...e find it among what are denominated the heathen nations—among those who are considered pagans, bowing down to worship images, the workmanship of their
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• Journal of Discourses/6/3
  ...impression, for some length of time, that the sayings of modern men of God are of as great importance as the sayings of ancient men of God {{page break|19 ...true and living God—as God's representatives on the earth—as those who are destined to lay the foundation of that kingdom which shall stand for ever.
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• Journal of Discourses/6/29
  ...edge of God, they are prone to forget him and to turn to their idols. They are prone to be froward in all their ways, very much like ourselves. ...though it may appear surprising and a matter hardly credible, yet even we are more or less under the power of traditions similar to those of the heathen.
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• Journal of Discourses/7/21
  ...full of mercy, long-suffering, and patient to the froward and to those who are ignorant• There is a glory in our religion that no other religion that ha ...Great Ruler of the universe, is capable of devising that which we see and are well acquainted with. All mechanism, good government, wholesome principle,
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• Journal of Discourses/7/26
  ...might suppose women should possess and exhibit. In our own community there are plenty of ladies who, give them the entire control of their own domestic af ...nse their skill and knowlege to benefit themselves and the community: they are not coerced to lose one particle of time and ability.
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• Journal of Discourses/7/31
  ...ell for us to weigh, consider, and find out the real responsibilities that are resting upon us. ...and to associate with a people that were universally despised. And so they are now. But we have got along with it, so that we now care nothing about it. N
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• Journal of Discourses/8/31
  ...with the society of the Saints, and all his transactions and associations are with them. With that Spirit, a person placed in the society of the wicked, How many are there here who do not like to pass by a camp of emigrants, but much prefer,
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• Journal of Discourses/8/60
  ...r induce me to become a public speaker. But the principles of eternal life are so engaging, so endearing, so lovely, so worthy of all acceptation, so swee ...s revelations, unless I am in the spirit by which they were dictated, they are lean to me to what they used to be when he was with us. They were rich, the
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• Journal of Discourses/8/63
  ..., being alone; so is the body dead without the spirit. The spirit and body are the soul of man. It is the spirit of man that prompts to improvement—to p ...ever saw. This is a pretty place naturally; but now your roads and streets are occupied with your firewood, waggons, ploughs, harrows, stables, dunghills,
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• Journal of Discourses/8/81
  ...arth. The Lord will bring out the results to his own honour and glory; but are we ready? ...of the earth and carried back from whence it came? My faith and my desire are that there should be a people upon the earth prepared to receive this wisdo
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• Journal of Discourses/9/4
  ...wrestled all night; and when he found he could not throw him, he said, You are something more than a man, or I could throw you. But I will not let thee go ...e wilderness, and so peace was taken from their midst. Suppose you get the Christians now together and fetch them up here, and ask them to tell us which is the p
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• Journal of Discourses/9/8
  ...n different nations, both in their social and political capacity; for they are in the vision of his mind. Who gave the ability to reflect and to behold th ...and deliver them into the hands of their families to be manufactured. Here are women who know how to spin, weave, and make the finest of cloth. So with th
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• Journal of Discourses/9/38
  ...n, since I entered into this Church, my desire to be found among those who are valiant for the truth. ...e fully the mind and will of Heaven, and the ordinances of the Gospel that are necessary for the living and the dead.
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• Journal of Discourses/9/39
  ...hen added, for the promise is to you and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even to as many as the Lord our God shall call. ...ient times, and in the words of many modern men, and many of our young men are made partakers of it by becoming members of the Church of Christ, and they
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• Journal of Discourses/9/68
  ...hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, an ...cannot understand the things of God; they may read them, but to them they are shrouded in darkness.
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• Journal of Discourses/10/40
  ...rest. According to the revelations given to us, it is a day upon which we are commanded to meet to break bread, to confess our faults to God and to one a ...e that we alone guide, govern and control our doings and their results. We are too apt to aspire to the power to control the whole world and to make all b
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• Journal of Discourses/10/46
  ...have passed through this city before, though I presume the majority of you are strangers here, and, like other people, you want to see all there is to be ...ugh among them to gain the desired information. If you wish to know why we are here, it is simply because we had nowhere else to go; we were obliged to go
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• Journal of Discourses/10/56
  ...brethren on a short trip north. I do this lest some might suppose that we are going to leave you. If we would live according to our acknowledgments in th ...raight path of duty; they are liable to do things they are sorry for; they are liable to make mistakes; and when they try to do their best, behold they do
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• Journal of Discourses/26/13
  |H=COMMUNITIES ARE MADE UP OF FAMILY ORGANIZATIONS—THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP INSTITUTED BY T |T=Journal of Discourses 26: COMMUNITIES ARE MADE UP OF FAMILY ORGANIZATIONS—THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP INSTITUTED BY T
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• Journal of Discourses/26/20
  ...AN AGENCY—GOD FORESEEING THAT ADAM WOULD FALL PREPARED A REDEEMER.—WE ARE HERE ON THE EARTH TO PROVE OUR INTEGRITY AND TO OBTAIN A KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD ...AN AGENCY—GOD FORESEEING THAT ADAM WOULD FALL PREPARED A REDEEMER.—WE ARE HERE ON THE EARTH TO PROVE OUR INTEGRITY AND TO OBTAIN A KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD
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• Journal of Discourses/26/23
  ...HE EDMUNDS LAW PASSED WITH THE PRETENCE OF REPRESSING IMMORALITY AMONG THE MORMONS—THAT MASK OF HYPOCRISY NOW THROWN OFF—THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT OF THE LA ...HE EDMUNDS LAW PASSED WITH THE PRETENCE OF REPRESSING IMMORALITY AMONG THE MORMONS—THAT MASK OF HYPOCRISY NOW THROWN OFF—THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT OF THE LA
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• Journal of Discourses/26/24
  ...HE WORLD REGARDING THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS—OUR DOCTRINES ARE CHRISTIAN AND ARE SUBSTANTIATED BY THE SCRIPTURES—NECESSITY OF PRESENT REVELATION—FIRST P ...HE WORLD REGARDING THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS—OUR DOCTRINES ARE CHRISTIAN AND ARE SUBSTANTIATED BY THE SCRIPTURES—NECESSITY OF PRESENT REVELATION—FIRST P
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• Journal of Discourses/26/28
  ...—WE MUST MAINTAIN OUR FIDELITY TO THE TRUTH—RARITY OF CRIME AMONG THE "MORMONS"—PURITY OF "MORMON" HOMES—CHARACTER OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS ...—WE MUST MAINTAIN OUR FIDELITY TO THE TRUTH—RARITY OF CRIME AMONG THE "MORMONS"—PURITY OF "MORMON" HOMES—CHARACTER OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS
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• Journal of Discourses/26/29
  |<=[[../28|Refusal of So-called Christians to Receive the Gospel of Christ, etc.]] ...thren are serving out terms of imprisonment, but it is also true that they are thus afflicted not for wrongdoing but for conscience sake; and they do not
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• Journal of Discourses/26/30
  There are a few moments remaining, which it is desired I should occupy. ...now of middle age have grown up with this knowledge, and the youth to-day are in their turn acquiring the same knowledge, obtaining it through the means
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• Journal of Discourses/26/33
  ...in the deepest philosophy of love. The doing by others the things that we are not able to do for ourselves, is a divine principle the practice of which s ...g powers, the keys of which were restored to the Prophet Joseph by Elijah, are of no more avail than were they when Satan, followed by a third part of the
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• Journal of Discourses/21/17
  |H=DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LATTER—DAY SAINTS AND ALL OTHER PROFESSING CHRISTIANS ...es 21: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LATTER—DAY SAINTS AND ALL OTHER PROFESSING CHRISTIANS
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• Journal of Discourses/14/27
  ...its upon themselves, we learn that the power of evil is very great, and we are more given to it than to possess the Spirit of Christ. Yet the Spirit of th ...e Savior, but he was a prophet. As he said once, when some one asked him, "Are you the Savior?" "No, but I can tell you what I am—I am his brother." So
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• Journal of Discourses/11/19
  ...of Mars-hill, he said," Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an Wherever the human family dwell upon the face of the earth, whether they are savage or civilised, there is a desire implanted within them to worship a g
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• Journal of Discourses/11/41
  ...success were known to individuals here. We are glad to say of him. that we are proud of his labors. We can say this safely in his presence, for he has eno ...rstand the way of life and salvation, can sanctify themselves so that they are accepted of God our Father, and of Jesus Christ, his Son, our Elder Brother
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• Journal of Discourses/11/14
  ...nother medium, and judge of them from another stand-point, than which they are generally viewed by the inhabitants of the earth. We look upon it that the There are a great many men in the world who, in the abstract, would say this is corre
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• Journal of Discourses/11/15
  Things are as we see them to prove our integrity towards God and his cause; for everyt ...ou, Brother Brigham, and your brethren the Twelve Apostles, with those who are connected with you in the holy Priesthood, will rear a great and mighty fab
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• Journal of Discourses/11/17
  ...brethren on a short trip north. I do this lest some might suppose that we are going to leave you. If we would live according to our acknowledgments in th ...raight path of duty; they are liable to do things they are sorry for; they are liable to make mistakes; and when they try to do their best, behold they do
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• Journal of Discourses/11/42
  ...king for it. The faithful will exercise faith, and pray always for all who are within the reach of mercy. The good desire good to all. I have words to say ...disciples might be? If we are, then are we a happy people; if we are, then are we a powerful and influential people. Jesus had power to do many miracles s
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• Journal of Discourses/11/47
  ...etter, is for our experience, and those who have wisdom, to decide. But we are here I do believe; I do not want anybody to pinch me, to know whether I am ...he whole world, is safer than that of any other people, no matter who they are nor where they live.
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• Journal of Discourses/11/49
  ...rality; whereas if they only understood the truth, they would know that we are very independent on these points, and that we care no more about their noti ...and other churches and denominations of the day, we know what their ideas are religiously, and we did not leave them because we thought they were right,
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• Journal of Discourses/12/9
  ...certain rights and privileges belonging to the Elders in Israel, and there are certain things that it is not their privilege to indulge in. You go through ...hem. Do not throw these things away, and say they must never be used; they are good to be used with judgment, prudence, and discretion. Ask our Bishops if
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• Journal of Discourses/12/15
  These words—"If ye are not one ye are not mine"—are the words of the Savior, through the prophet Joseph, and given to us. This ...en in a moral point of view, take {{page break|57|top}} our young men, who are easily operated upon, do they know how to guide their steps so that a good
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• Journal of Discourses/12/17
  ...e "Mormons," and I supposed the whole affair was a great humbug, that the "Mormons" were fanatics and very bad people. The days of my youth were days of relig ...before; and even now, whenever I search the Scriptures, I find things that are new to me, that I never understood nor comprehended before, although I have
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• Journal of Discourses/12/53
  ...ral brothers when they come into my office, which is very seldom, if there are important matters on hand—when I am teaching the brethren the principles ...he Church; and others have been here with us all the day long, and if they are not filled with wisdom and the power of God it is their own fault.
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• Journal of Discourses/12/55
  ...literal kingdom, a temporal kingdom and a spiritual kingdom; but while we are in a temporal state, and possess our temporalities, our abilities must corr ...wrote plainly in reference to this gathering, and we have believed it. We are called upon to come out from among the wicked, as it is written, "Come out
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• Journal of Discourses/12/66
  ...elieve in the Lord Jesus Christ, as one of the principles of our faith; we are taught to repent of all our sins and to refrain from everything that is for ...that man, or some other raised up in the same manner, this people called "Mormons" or Latter-day Saints, now occupying this mountain territory, would have be
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• Journal of Discourses/13/3
  ...in the habit of investigating the principles of the Gospel, and our minds are more or less occupied with affairs connected with the welfare of humanity, ...ficent churches and pay {{page break|13|top}} thousands of ministers; they are also very zealous in missionary labours, and contribute largely for the sup
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• Journal of Discourses/13/12
  ...red to him, one of his first inquiries was, "Which of the denominations of Christians in the vicinity was right?" He was told they had all gone astray, they had ...d about a hundred members of his church, many of whom, and their children, are citizens of this Territory to-day. After this they continued their journey
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• Journal of Discourses/13/26
  |H=THE SAINTS ARE A STRANGE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY PRACTISE WHAT THEY PROFESS |T=Journal of Discourses 13: THE SAINTS ARE A STRANGE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY PRACTISE WHAT THEY PROFESS
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• Journal of Discourses/14/7
  ...to themselves the blessings of eternal life; they who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers. If we hear the word and do not perfor ...duties of life we can increase in knowledge, wisdom and understanding. We are thankful to see the increase that there is in the midst of the people.
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• Journal of Discourses/14/16
  ...have plenty of strength there; but the organs of speech in this tabernacle are actually worn; but as I am feeling better I expect to meet with you more fr ...re, holy, just, and true; and those principles which the Lord has revealed are the only correct principles that man possesses on the earth. We may imagine
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• Journal of Discourses/14/17
  ...as a general thing they would not. If we had been let alone while with the Christians we would have been there now proclaiming the Gospel. But I wish to say to s ...believe the truth than the men; they comprehend it more quickly, and they are submissive and easy to teach, and if we cannot save the men, let us save th
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• Journal of Discourses/14/22
  ...wicked world; but we have reason to rejoice and be exceeding glad that we are not in the same circumstances now that we have been heretofore. We have pea ...nces in which we shall be as willing to live our religion and pray as some are to fight, it will be much better for us. We have many Elders in Israel who
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• Journal of Discourses/14/26
  ...sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable [unreaso ...py faculty of conveying their ideas with greater propriety than others who are literary in their tastes and have been highly educated. There is considerab
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• Journal of Discourses/15/1
  ...Latter-day Saints do pity the Christians! What a spectacle! And see us, as Christians, warring with each other! What for? For our pure faith, for our holy desire ...and the building up of the Kingdom of God than all the world besides that are destitute of the priesthood of the Son of God. And yet what do we know? Com
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• Journal of Discourses/15/15
  ...the table. I am not aware, of course, whether or not this is general among Christians; but I notice among the Latter-day Saints, that it seems to be very natural ...ighbor as we would that he should do unto us? Are we just in our dealings? Are we honoring those principles of morality which alone can prepare us to inhe
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• Journal of Discourses/15/32
  ...ion to matter, something entirely separate and distinct from matter. There are however, but few in the Christian world who have worked themselves so far i ...re we believe that the spirits which occupy the bodies of the human family are more or less in the resemblance of the tabernacles.
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• Journal of Discourses/16/11
  ...." If you go to the professed infidel, of any class, and ask him, "Do the 'Mormons' believe in the Bible?"—"Why yes, I have heard them preach, and they beli ...rity of John the Baptist, but they had not received the Holy Ghost; and we are told that certain Apostles went down from Jerusalem to lay their hands on t
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• Journal of Discourses/16/13
  ...y may sell. It is really true that a great share of the books in the world are written more to be read than to communicate facts. It is said that when Hen ...e to be healed in consequence of the holiness of this place. This class of Christians—the Copts—have maintained their identity through the reign of Mahommeta
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• Journal of Discourses/16/23
  ...Mode of Administering the Sacrament—Abiding Counsel—Heavenly Blessings Are Conditional—Progressiveness of the Work—Plural Marriage Tithing—Tardi Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let
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• Times and Seasons/1/8
  ...was on fire. This scene of grandeur can only be comprehended by those who are acquainted with the scenes of prairie burning. As the fire sweeps over mill ...n was to spread lies and falsehoods of the alarming character; such as the Mormons were in a state of rebellion against he Government, and that they were abou
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• Journal of Discourses/16/41
  |>=[[../42|The Creation—the Seventh Thousand Years, and Events Which Are to Follow the Period of the Millennium]] ...nunciated, it amounts to very little. It is not the hearer of the word, we are told, who is benefited, but he that doeth it. And Jesus says that many will
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• Journal of Discourses/19/1
  ...ring the last six months as any of the labors of my life. Here let me ask, are you, my brethren and sisters, satisfied with the labors you have performed ...e, a blessing, which no one can sense unless he is in possession of it. We are happy to know by our faith and feelings through the spirit of revelation wi
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• Journal of Discourses/20/39
  ...these great and glorious principles which God has revealed to us, but they are a disgrace to their profession. ...n wallowing in filth, corruption, rottenness and infamy! Men and women who are the murderers of their own infants by the thousands before or after birth.
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• Journal of Discourses/20/46
  ...ake City, with this difference, it is simply dressed outside. Hence things are progressing rapidly, which evinces a good desire among the Saints to carry ...houses in which we have attended meetings, and put most of the people who are seated in the body of this tabernacle into them. If the Saints wanted to at
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• Journal of Discourses/17/15
  ...y-six years ago, is familiar to the minds of all the Latter-day Saints who are acquainted with the history of that period, and there is one man in the Ter ...im. He told me that his mother deeply deprecated the difficulties with the Mormons, and did all she could to prevent them.
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• Journal of Discourses/17/35
  |<=[[../34|God’s Ancient People Polygamists—Marriage Relations are to Continue Forever—No Power Binding in Marriage But That of the Holy Pri |>=[[../36|Saints are Chosen—Eternal Life Worth More Than all Things Else—Works Must Correspo
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• Journal of Discourses/17/42
  I will read a passage with which the Latter-day Saints, especially, are familiar—"All ye inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth, see ...o that believers in both the Old and New Testaments, or in either of them, are expecting that such a great and terrible event will come. But very few, how
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• Journal of Discourses/18/7
  ...sly caught up to meet the Lord in the air. This doctrine is believed in by Christians generally who do not spiritualize altogether the sense and meaning of the S ...can be easily understood by all, both learned and unlearned. These events are to be so conspicuous that I presume there will not be a nation, people, kin
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• Journal of Discourses/18/21
  ...gone by, and that no more Prophets, Apostles, Revelators, or inspired men are to appear among the children of men. But it is very evident from a vast amo ...e heavenly visions, the ministration of angels, and the various gifts that are promised according to the Gospel.
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• Journal of Discourses/18/31
  ...ilosophy of Man Upon The Earth—The Great and Grand Secret of Salvation—Are We One—Nature of Stewardship—Increase of Temples—Hear Ye, Mothers]] ...Lord has given to us, to the requirements which he has made upon us? These are important questions for us to answer.
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• Journal of Discourses/22/9
  ...s of our common humanity; and that method is the rule by which the results are attained, and the determination of the character of those results, whether ...e awarded to the builders of the various centres of civilization, and that are conferred upon those active agents and instrumentalities by which they have
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• Journal of Discourses/22/10
  ...e will be an opportunity afforded us to advance and learn that of which we are now ignorant. ...lieve in other things in {{page break|69|top}} which we believe. But there are principles connected with our faith which go over and beyond and above all
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• Journal of Discourses/22/40
  ...me off which we have heard sung this afternoon, it may find some of us who are not "wheat," not faithfully performing in all respects the various duties a ...very peculiar one. We are gathered here from the nations of the earth. We are gathered here because of certain plans, purposes and designs of Jehovah, pe
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• Journal of Discourses/23/5
  ...n to preach the Gospel to the world in his day, before its destruction, so are we. ...had manifestations, revelations, doctrines or organizations, those things are made known to us. Or if the people upon this continent, to whom God reveale
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• Journal of Discourses/23/7
  ...n certain planets or comets will appear and disappear. All their movements are undeviating, exact and true according to the laws of nature. ...he principles of eternal life, and are operating for eternity; and then we are operating to build up the Zion of God, where righteousness can be taught, a
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• Journal of Discourses/23/11
  ...indred, tongue, and people, unto destruction, which do wickedly, when they are fully ripe; and as I have said so shall it be; for this is the cursing and ...l there is an excellent feeling throughout all these settlements, and they are looking hopefully to the future.
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• Journal of Discourses/23/24
  ...the hand may each and all be deceived, but, the instructions of the spirit are in all things correct. The combined senses may misguide or fail, but he who ...eading him into all truth and showing him things to come? Who, beside them are authorized by God, commissioned by Jesus and endorsed by the Holy Spirit to
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• Journal of Discourses/23/30
  ...nd to the world in which we live,—pertaining to those who have lived and are now in another state of existence, and also pertaining to those who shall y ...ophesied about it. They taught the antediluvians as the people of this day are being taught, they warned them of the impending ruin that would overwhelm t
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• Journal of Discourses/23/34
  ...ified form, while wickedness exists upon the earth. Africans and white men are in bondage, not in the same form as that in which the southern slaves were ...g to make odious the honor and purity of marriage. This is all wrong. They are in error in the view they take of it. If their bishops, priests, potentates
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• Journal of Discourses/24/25
  ...together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth." By this we see that the Apostle Paul—and he was imbued with th ...bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction," "and many," we are told, "shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of tru
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• Journal of Discourses/24/34
  ...OINT OF VIEW—A COMMONWEALTH HAS BEEN BUILT UP IN THESE MOUNTAINS BY THE "MORMONS" UNDER THE BLESSING OF GOD—UNFAIRLY TREATED AS A PEOPLE BY THE PARENT GOV ...OINT OF VIEW—A COMMONWEALTH HAS BEEN BUILT UP IN THESE MOUNTAINS BY THE "MORMONS" UNDER THE BLESSING OF GOD—UNFAIRLY TREATED AS A PEOPLE BY THE PARENT GOV
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• Journal of Discourses/24/42
  ...OUR ENEMIES; THEIR AIMS—FREEDOM EXTENDED TO ALL SECTS IN UTAH—WHAT THE MORMONS CLAIM—THEIR BELIEF IN PLURAL MARRIAGE—INSTITUTIONS INTRODUCED BY CHRIST ...OUR ENEMIES; THEIR AIMS—FREEDOM EXTENDED TO ALL SECTS IN UTAH—WHAT THE MORMONS CLAIM—THEIR BELIEF IN PLURAL MARRIAGE—INSTITUTIONS INTRODUCED BY CHRIST
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• Journal of Discourses/25/12
  ...nd whether they are performing the various duties devolving upon them, and are seeking to carry out the word, the will, and the law of God. ...ak|85|top}} here, and hearing that we are a strange sort of a people, they are desirous to know something about us as they pass through.
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• Journal of Discourses/25/25
  ...FORMED—EFFECTS OF THE GOSPEL—WHEREIN IS THE EFFICACY OF BAPTISM—WHO ARE BENEFITTED BY IT—PERSECUTIONS ENDURED BY THE SAINTS—EFFECTS OF PERSECUT ...FORMED—EFFECTS OF THE GOSPEL—WHEREIN IS THE EFFICACY OF BAPTISM—WHO ARE BENEFITTED BY IT—PERSECUTIONS ENDURED BY THE SAINTS—EFFECTS OF PERSECUT
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• Journal of Discourses/25/41
  ...LYGAMY AND PROSTITUTION—STATISTICS OF CRIME COMMITTED BY MORMONS AND NON-MORMONS—THE WICKEDNESS OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES—THE DEBASED POSITION OF U.S. O ...LYGAMY AND PROSTITUTION—STATISTICS OF CRIME COMMITTED BY MORMONS AND NON-MORMONS—THE WICKEDNESS OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES—THE DEBASED POSITION OF U.S. O
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• Times and Seasons/1/10
  ...ed them the reason of this prohibition, to which they replied that we were Mormons, and that every one who adhered to our religious faith would have to leave ...l persons who would not take up arms against the society, should, with the Mormons, be driven out of the State; and thus drawing the division line so close th
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• Jesus Christ
  |L4=Are Latter-day Saints Christians? {{:Jesus Christ/Accusations that Mormons aren't Christians}}
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 1
  ...d by the Mormon Church is not the same God who is worshiped by millions of Christians today |L9=Response to claim: 35- The authors claim that Mormons believe that "God could stop being God"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 2
  ...e LDS believe Jesus Christ and Lucifer are brothers in the sense that both are in evil cahoots with each other ...escribing different people. Leaving aside the fact that it is not the anti-Mormons who determine what official LDS theology is, several problems remain with t
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 3
  ...rpreted by the authors to mean that "one is not to even believe that there are other gods" |L11=Response to claim: 57 - Mormons believe that the Trinity was "an invention of the apostate church," while C
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 4
  The authors claim "For years Mormons were urged to have as many children as possible in order to make a way for ...doctrine (such as premortal existence) and policy (such as birth control) are two separate issues. Any denomination's policies can change over time, with
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 5
  |L1=Response to claim: 72-74 - The authors claim that Mormons believe that the Fall of Adam was a "fall upward" |L4=Response to claim: 74-75 - Mormons believe that "Satan was telling the truth" when he told Eve that she "shall
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 6
  ...authors proffer a series of arguments against the LDS belief that Apostles are a necessity in the Lord's Church ...ould eliminate the 'loss of keys' for the primitive Christian church, many Mormons choose to spiritualize this otherwise straightforward verse." They go on to
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 7
  |L1=Response to claim: 97 - Mormons consider the Bible to be "insufficient" |L5=Response to claim; 98 - The authors suggest that Mormons have a lack of interest in the Bible because they think that it is not trus
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 10
  |L1=Response to claim: 139 - Mainstream Christians and Latter-day Christians "both accept the atonement of Christ" ==Response to claim: 139 - Mainstream Christians and Latter-day Christians "both accept the atonement of Christ"==
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 11
  |L4=Response to claim: 155 -"Because of the unreasonable demand put on them," Mormons "may live their daily lives with the guild of never being good enough for c {{:Question: What can the writings of early Christians tell us about how to receive salvation in Jesus Christ?}}
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 15
  |L1=Response to claim: 208 - "When they are first built, Mormon temples are opened to the general public in an "open house" format for a short time. Af |L6=Response to claim: 212 - "Mormons who remain true to the faith and wear the garments believe they will be pro
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 16
  ...want you to believe that we bear any animosity toward the Negro. 'Darkies' are wonderful people, and they have their place in our church" |L6=Response to claim: 235 - Brigham Young: "the aborigines of this country are dark, loathsome, ignorant, and sunken into the depths of degradation"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 17
  |L9=Response to claim: 255 - "Would Mormons living in today's society follow as their prophet a man who was known to be ...to claim: 261 - "It should come as no surprise that among the many excuses Mormons have raised for the failure of Smith's Missouri predictions, few admit it w
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 18
  ...trust these men to lead them to eternal life? Apparently so. What if they are wrong?" |L5=Response to claim: 266 - "for Mormons, rejecting the prophet and other church leaders is akin to rejecting God Hi
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Introduction
  ...Keever and Johnson repeatedly use polemical methods against Mormonism that are defective. I will also demonstrate that McKeever and Johnson's brand of Chr ...be distinguished from each other in the minutest detail…Mormons are true Christians; their worship is the pure, unadulterated Christianity authored by Christ a
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• Question: Were the Mormons motivated to participate in supporting California Proposition 8 merely as a vehicle to be considered more mainstream Christian?
  ==Question: Were the Mormons motivated to participate in supporting California Proposition 8 merely as a ===Mormons welcomed the opportunity to cooperate not only with other Christians, but with Muslims, Jews, and others who share our values and concerns for s
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• Question: What do Mormons believe regarding the nature of angels?
  ==Question: What do Mormons believe regarding the nature of angels?== ...reject the LDS concept that angels were once mortal, claiming that angels are a special creation of God and that humans can never become angels. <ref>{{C
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• Question: What is the historic church's concept of the Trinity and why do Mormons reject it?
  ==Question: What is the historic church's concept of the Trinity and why do Mormons reject it?== ...ies. If it can be demonstrated that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost/Spirit are God, and at the same time be shown that there exists only one God, it would
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• Question: Do the Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") use praise of God as part of their prayers and songs in worship?
  ==Question: Do the Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") use praise of God as part of their prayers and songs in worship?== These parts are illustrated in "[http://www.lds.org/churchmusic/detailmusicPlayer/index.htm
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 1
  |L5=Response to claim: 26 - Many Mormons believe that "their salvation, to a limited degree, rests upon Smith" |L34=Response to claim: 36 - Early Mormons believed in "witchcraft"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 2
  |L1=Response to claim: 51, 353n2, 354n3 - Some Book of Mormon stories are simply reworked from the Bible or the Apocrypha |L9=Response to claim: 58, 359n52-53 - There are anachronistic references to cows and oxen in the New World hundreds of year
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 10
  |L2=Response to claim: 256 - The Book of Mormon teaches that there are only two churches: 1) the false church of the devil and 2) the true church {{information|Those who persecuted Latter-day Saints professed to be Christians.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 4
  |L1=Response to claim: 109 - Mormons embrace polytheism—the belief in a plurality of gods |L2=Response to claim: 112 n25-26 - Mormons redefine monotheism to be the worship of one "primary or supreme god above
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 7
  |L1=Response to claim: 183 - Latter-day Saints are claimed to reject the "Evangelical belief" that "Christ was born of the vir ==Response to claim: 183 - Latter-day Saints are claimed to reject the "Evangelical belief" that "Christ was born of the vir
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• Countercult ministries
  |S=These are ministries that are targeted primarily at opposing Mormonism. |L1=Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves
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• Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 2
  In LDS theology, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are one God. That oneness is understood differently than the creeds. {{:Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed?}}
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• Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 1
  ...because of the belief that God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are three distinct and separate personages ...laim: Brigham Young said that the birth of Jesus Christ "was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural action"
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• Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 5
  |H=Response to claims in "A Miracle for Mormons - Forgiveness of Sins" |H=Response to claims in "A Miracle for Mormons - Forgiveness of Sins" by Watchman Fellowship
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• Reference templates/Reference works/R
  ...ay|pages=xxx|author=NAME|article=TITLE}} ||[[Template: Book:Reynolds:Early Christians in Disarray|edit]] ...Are Mormons Christians|pages=xxx}} ||[[Template: Book:Robinson:Are Mormons Christians|edit]]
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• Reference templates/Old style/Page 1
  ===Are Mormons Christians? - Robinson=== ...hen citing the on-line versions of this book. Note that no other arguments are passed.</nowiki>
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/4
  ...rave rank among the brethren of that faith. How the brethren of that faith are divided into ranks I am not able to say, but it appears that there is one r ...to either utter the sentiments of the bible, or to believe them when they are uttered by others. It is the very perfection of a false religion, to make i
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/8
  ...to eternal life, that God will save you in his celestial kingdom, when you are demoralizing yourselves, exerting a baneful influence around you, setting a ...glory. You may once have been washed, you may have been cleansed, but you are turned again like the dog to his vomit, or like the swine that was washed t
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/1
  ...t, for their special convenience. It frequently happens that when brethren are abroad proclaiming the gospel, they have neither a prospectus nor a specime As those principles are found written over the face of scripture, to give, even a synopsis, in a sh
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/3
  ...e such as to excite feelings of no ordinary kind, in the mind of those who are enlightened in any degree to understand the nature of their religion, and t ...ophets, as the course which alone can accomplish the object for which they are called.
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/7
  ...he Jews, as a body reject the idea that he ever did come, and consequently are still looking for him. They profess to believe what the prophets said conce ...ry might arise in the minds of some relative to the place where the saints are to reign with him, we unhesitatingly say it is on the earth, and as proof o
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/10
  ..., and all points concerning the location and the improvements our brethren are making in the west. ...escription of the country, but we deem it unnecessary. Most of our readers are acquainted with the geography of the country from reading, or from the oral
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Video/8: The Mormon Proposition
  ...misrepresent facts, and perpetuates false and degrading stereotypes about Mormons with same-sex attractions. |claim=The trailer states that ""Mormons believe that their prophet literally is in communication with God" followin
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/1/6
  '''Note:''' ''Some headings and bracketed texts are editorial and not part of the original text.'' ...the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/15
  '''Note:''' ''Some headings and bracketed texts are editorial and not part of the original text.'' ...e shall give the outlines of the course which we intend to pursue while we are favored with the privilege of conducting the columns of this paper.
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/16
  '''Note:''' ''Some headings and bracketed texts are editorial and not part of the original text.'' ...our friends, which we deem of importance to lay before our readers, as we are thereby furnished with satisfactory information by which we can draw a conc
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/17
  '''Note:''' ''Some headings and bracketed texts are editorial and not part of the original text.'' ...leave the county of Jackson. Said they, "We will rid Jackson county of the Mormons, peaceably if we can, and forcibly if we must. If they will not go without,
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/20
  '''Note:''' ''Some headings and bracketed texts are editorial and not part of the original text.'' ...t possess one single peculiarity of the religion of the ancient saints-and are equal with them (as they say) in all the privileges of the eternal world, b
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/21
  '''Note:''' ''Some headings and bracketed texts are editorial and not part of the original text.'' ...verlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting." No such wonders as these have transpired yet, nor is there an
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• Times and Seasons/3/15
  |L8=THE MORMONS. ...ne and Covenants, are from God, they are principles of righteousness;-they are given for a blessing to the human family, and the salvation, temporal and s
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• Times and Seasons/3/23
  ...y of Jesus from the tomb, to prove that the ruins of the city in question, are not one of those referred to in the Book of Mormon. ...cities with those in the Book of Mormon: light cleaves to light, and facts are supported by facts. The truth injures no one, and so we make another
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• Question: Do Mormons really believe that drinking tea (or alcohol, etc.) is "morally wrong"?
  ==Question: Do Mormons really believe that drinking tea (or alcohol, etc.) is "morally wrong"?== Mormons don't drink tea regardless of temperature, because they believe God's proph
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• Times and Seasons/6/2
  ...sen: they who are not chosen have sinned a very grievous sin, in that they are walking in darkness at noonday; and for this cause, I gave unto you a comma ...nd he shall seek diligently to take away incumbrances [encumbrances], that are upon the house named among you, that he may dwell therein; even so. Amen.
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• Times and Seasons/6/4
  Every few days there are some honest souls born into the kingdom of God. Persecution rages to a cons ..., I am resolved to blow the trumpet of the gospel, until the people of God are delivered
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• Times and Seasons/6/5
  ...ose of adopting measures to rid themselves of the sect of fanatics, called Mormons, held at Independence on the 20th day of July, 1833; which meeting was comp ...se of our peculiar situation, in regard to this singular sect of pretended christians, and a solemn declaration of our unalterable determination to amend it.
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• Times and Seasons/6/8
  |L7=WHO ARE THE CHRISTIAN ISRAELITES? ...nd laws have placed at my disposal, to avert the calamities with which you are threatened.
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• Times and Seasons/6/9
  ...the names of his prisoners, crying, "don't fire, don't fire, the prisoners are in my charge, &c." They however fired one or two guns, when Morley and Corr ...ers of the gospel took a conspicuous part in the persecution, calling the "Mormons" the "common enemy of mankind," and exulting in their afflictions.
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• Times and Seasons/6/13
  ...the will and testament of our Mediator, whose intercessions in our behalf, are lodged in the bosom of the Eternal Father, and ere long will burst with ble ...rolling on, and the prophecies must be fulfilled. The days of tribulation are fast approaching, and the time to test the fidelity of the saints, has come
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• Times and Seasons/6/16
  ...ll be, to present the authorities of the church, to ascertain whether they are in good standing. ...ask, why as it that we have been at all this outlay and expense, and then are called to leave it? He would answer that the people of God always were requ
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• Times and Seasons/6/17
  ...o them, they shall never cease to prevail until the kingdoms of the worlds are subdued under my feet, and the earth is given unto the saints, to possess i ...to be saviors of men, and inasmuch as they are not the saviors of men they are as salt that hath lost its savor, and is thenceforth good for nothing, but
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• Times and Seasons/6/18
  |L11=THE MORMONS. ...returned home. And in the evening attended council of which the following are the minutes.
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• Times and Seasons/6/20
  ...eneration for the laws of our country, and its pure republican principles, are as great as that of any other society in the United States. ...hen the Jackson mob get the intelligence that a large number of our people are about to remove, into that country, they will raise a great hue and cry, an
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• Times and Seasons/6/21
  ...of said Regiment are therefore commanded to collect the said arms, if they are not already in your possession, and deliver them to the aforesaid Gentlemen ...eet me next Monday in Liberty. I much fear and dread the consequences that are yet to ensue, unless I should succeed in my wishes to restore peace. It is
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• Times and Seasons/6/23
  ...and the sacred mantle of freedom been caught up to heaven where the weary are at rest, and the wicked cannot come. ...od. We are well aware that many slanderous reports, and ridiculous stories are in circulation against our religion and society, but as wise men will hear
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• Times and Seasons/5/3
  ...ive directions how to organize this people: for it must needs be that they are organized according to my laws, if otherwise they will be cut off: wherefor ...will consecrate unto my people, who are a remnant of Jacob, and those who are heirs according to the covenant.
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• Times and Seasons/5/4
  ...journey with my servants Joseph Smith, jr. and Sidney Rigdon. Behold these are the first ordinances which you shall receive; and the residue shall be made ...tter for him that he had been drowned in the depth of the sea; but blessed are they who have kept the covenant, and observed the commandment, for they sha
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• Question: Is it hypocritical for Mormons to oppose same-sex marriage, when the Church itself practiced plural marriage?
  ==Question: Is it hypocritical for Mormons to oppose same-sex marriage, when the Church itself practiced plural marria ...y on other people, yet the Supreme Courts and many gay right organizations are seeking to take away rights from people who do not live up to the new stand
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• Times and Seasons/5/6
  ...elief; nevertheless, I suffered it that ye might bear record; behold there are many dangers upon the waters and more especially hereafter, for I the Lord ...their mission, and through faith they shall overcome; and inasmuch as they are faithful, they shall be preserved, and I the Lord will be with them. And le
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• Times and Seasons/5/8
  ...nd the heavens and the earth are in mine hands, and the riches of eternity are mine to give. Ye endeavored to believe that ye should receive the blessing ...like unto it, ye are under condemnation if ye do not bear record that they are true: for ye know that there is no unrighteousness in them; and that which
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• Mormonism and Christianity
  |L1=Are Mormons Christians? |L2=Mormons worship Jesus Christ
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Interpretations and responses to the vision
  ...about the vision's precise meaning and details. Secular scholars and non-Mormons view the vision as a lie, false memory, delusion, or hallucination, or some ...842), 706-08, only two years before Smith's assassination. (These accounts are available in Dan Vogel, ed., ''Early Mormon Documents'' (Salt Lake City: Si
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• Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 1-28
  |L=Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 1-28 |H=Response to "Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves" (Questions 1-28)
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• Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 29-58
  |L=Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 29-58 |H=Response to "Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves" (Questions 29-58)
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• Facts Mormons Won't Tell You When They Call at Your Door
  |L=Facts Mormons Won't Tell You When They Call at Your Door |H=Response to "Facts Mormons Won't Tell You When They Call at Your Door"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise/Quote mining
  ...: 403 - "Evidence of Smith family magic activities too well documented for Mormons to deny" ..."true Jesus" in order to support the claim that Latter-day Saints are not "Christians." Its use by the authors in the main text of their narrative is simply insu
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• Reference templates/Critical sources boxes
  ...ox:Book of Mormon/Geography/Models/Limited/Meldrum 2003/Alternate theories are "apostate"/CriticalSources|edit]] ...ces ||[[Template:Critical sources box:Brigham Young/Teachings/Moon and sun are inhabited/CriticalSources|edit]]
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• Website reviews/Exmormon Foundation/Richard Packham's media questions for Mitt Romney
  ...opening up the can of very fat worms that is religion....Those on the left are already in President Obama’s camp, so there would be no advantage in plac ...d a list of questions for the media that were designed to turn evangelical Christians against a Mormon political candidate. In 2012, this list was resurrected in
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/25 items that would allegedly "make the Church true"
  ...esented by the website followed by FAIR's response. Most items on the list are standard anti-Mormon fare, issues FAIR believes have been "asked and answer ...by suggesting, “You will see no contradictions or problems! The stories are flawless and complimentary!"<br>''MormonThink's'' response to FAIR}}
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Tithing
  |L1=Response to claim: "We are not called to tithe, but to make an offering to sustain the church" |L3=Response to claim: "We are tithe payers...When can we see the financial information?"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Witnesses/Source quotes without commentary
  ...andments of God, we bear testimony of these things. And we know that if we are faithful in Christ, we shall rid our garments of the blood of all men, and ...e first settlers of America, endeavoring to show that the American Indians are the descendants of the Jews, or the lost tribes. It gave a detailed account
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Blacks and the Priesthood
  |L7=Response to claim: "Although we don't normally quote from sources who are unwilling to have their name published" ...scientific reasoning then all of Mormonism's teachings about race and skin are complete nonsense"
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• Elder's Journal/1/1
  ...of the truth and for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. We are under the necessity of making use of our pen, to give you an account of our ...pirit and we were enabled to stand up and boldly declare those things that are commanded us.&mdash;And the sound thereof soon reached the neighboring Isla
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• Elder's Journal/1/2
  ...and encourage the Saints to persevere in the glorious cause in which they are engaged even if their path should at times be intersected with trials, affl ...a, who are engaged in the same cause with their brethren and sisters, that are scattared [scattered] abroad through the land. I will endeavor to give a br
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• Elder's Journal/1/3
  ...he enemies to the truth, both from without and within, to the contrary, we are enabled to present this Journal, to the patrons, with the prospect of being ...ses of enemies, and of all sects and parties of religion; and of those who are opposed to it in all its forms to prevent it.
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• Primary sources/David Whitmer/An Address to All Believers in Christ
  ...is a brief address to those who have not read the Book of Mormon, and who are not conversant with the denominations that believe in that book. There are three distinct denominations that believe the Book of Mormon to be the Word
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Conflicts with Science/Source quotes without commentary
  ...istoricity of Noah and the Flood and those who accept parts of the story—are persuaded in their disbelief by the way they interpret modern science. They ...to the ark, and floated safely away as waters covered the entire earth. We are assured that these events actually occurred by the multiple testimonies of
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• Times and Seasons/2/3
  |L11=OUTRAGES OF MISSOURI MOBS ON MORMONS. ...ized the "Acts of the apostles," and the ancient saints. But such facts as are within my knowledged [knowledge], will be given, without any reference to i
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• Detailed response to CES Letter, Priesthood Restoration
  ...h may have told his family about the priesthood restoration, because there are no historical documents to support his position one way or the other. *[[Question: What criticisms are put forth regarding the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood?]]
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 2
  |<=[[../Chapter 1|Chapter 1: Mormons on Your Doorstep]] ...to claim: 16 - converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are encouraged to "renounce the validity of their own denominations"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 4
  ...LDS church teach that there are three gods in the Godhead, but that there are other gods as well" |L6=Response to claim: 49 - That author states that Mormons believe in an "infinite regress" of gods, and that if this is true, then "n
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 6
  ...first "fallacy" of Mormonism is that it claims that the Church's teaching are the same as those of the early Church and that it is a restoration of that |L4=Response to claim: 82 - Mormons believe that "both Adam and Eve lost their purely 'spiritual state' and bec
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 9
  ...thor states that "Mormon high priests do not offer any sacrifices, so they are not following the Old Testament pattern" |L12=Response to claim: 141 - "Teachers" must be "mature Christians" that are "able to teach others" rather than teenagers
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• The Bible/Biblical accuracy
  |L5=Question: Are the Biblical textual variants theologically significant? |L6=Question: What did early Christians think about alterations to the scriptures?
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• The Bible/Scripture interpretation
  |L7=Question: Why do Mormons use the Aaronic Priesthood, since Hebrews 7 states that the Aaronic/Levitic |L14=Question: What are the common objections to a belief in God's corporeality?
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• Question: What is the best way to understand servitude in the Old and New Testaments?
  ===There is no scripture commanding servitude. There are a number that regulate its practice.===
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• Events after the First Vision
  ...s''' descends from God to speak with Lehi&mdash;thus, Jesus and the Father are here both separate, and the role of Christ in giving instructions to the pr === I and the Father are One to Three Nephites ===
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• Mormonism and Christianity/Criticisms of the Mormon view of Jesus Christ
  ...im that Latter-day Saints believe in a "different" Jesus than "mainstream" Christians. ...ion: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a "different" Jesus than "mainstream" Christians?
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• Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Why were some doctrines later repudiated
  ...not hidden in an obscure paragraph of one talk...The leaders of the Church are honest but imperfect men" ...ndersen:Trial of Your Faith:Ensign:November 2012:The leaders of the Church are honest but imperfect men}}
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• Jesus Christ/Accusations that Mormons aren't Christians/Evangelical arguments
  ...rk:M'Chesney:Antidote to Mormonism|pages=49}}<br><br>Some claim we are not Christians. They either do not know us at all or they misunderstand. In the Church eve |L=Jesus Christ/Accusations that Mormons aren't Christians/Evangelical arguments
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• Times and Seasons/2/7
  ...days, and we (Latter Day Saints) who say, we are living in those days; why are we not in the enjoyment of these privileges, let us enquire [inquire], do w ...nksgiving for all Saints, and for a place of instruction for all those who are called to the work of the ministry in all their several callings and office
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• Mormonism and Christianity/Grace and works/Mormon perspective
  |L1=Question: How do Mormons see the relationship between works and grace? |L2=Question: Do Mormons believe that salvation is based upon works?
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Passing the Heavenly Gift/Claims about priesthood ordination
  |S=Portions of this wiki response are based upon {{GLS-Paper-Snuffer-0}} The text here may have been expanded, re
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• KJV translation errors in the Book of Mormon
  ...errors doing in the Book of Mormon? A purported ancient text? Errors which are unique to the 1769 edition that Joseph Smith owned?"<ref>Jeremy T. Runnells There are actually five separate questions that will almost certainly arise when conf
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• Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names?
  ...the Classic Mayan and Olmec cities of two millennia ago, which is why they are known today under Spanish titles such as La Libertad and Tres Zapotes, Sant ...resent city names. These icons are not only rare (as noted above) but they are symbolic rather than phonetic. In other words, when archaeologists find an
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• Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness?
  ===Not all religions claim that the truth of their beliefs are confirmed through a spiritual witness=== ...ngelical Christians have spent a great deal of time trying to prove to the Mormons that a spiritual witness should NOT be relied on to establish truth. Most m
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity
  Mormonism can be a controversial topic for many non-Mormon Christians, but I have come to the conclusion that no theology has ever managed to cap [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:2:Mormonism a mirror for other Christians
  ==Non-LDS Christian Stephen H. Webb: Mormonism an exciting mirror for other Christians== ...ty should make it the most exciting conversational partner for traditional Christians for the twenty-first century. Studying Mormonism is like looking into a mir
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:3:Mormonism does justice to glory and majesty of Christ
  [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:4:Mormons don't know where to stop giving glory to Jesus
  ==Non-LDS Christian Stephen H. Webb: "Mormons are Christians who do not know where to stop"== In affirming the divinity of Jesus, Mormons are Christians who do not know where to stop. Thy answer the question of whether it is pos
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:5:Mormons, Nicea, and Plato
  ...ological arguments can look like a form of cheating when, in reality, they are trying to change the way the game is played. Mormonism is like an alternati ...world where everything is slightly but significantly skewed from what they are used to <ref name="webbBook">{{Periodical:Webb:Godbodied}}</ref>{{Rp|85}}</
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds
  ==Mormons have "picked up" discarded beliefs of early Christians== ...is as if, as they follow the road orthodox theologians took to the creeds, Mormons pause to pick up the detritus that was jettisoned along the way. They recyc
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:7:Mormons and creatio ex nihilo
  ==Mormons and ''creatio ex nihilo'' (creation out of nothing)== [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:8:Revelation vs historical guesswork about Jesus
  [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:9:Mormon trinitarian views are not polytheistic
  ==LDS trinitarian views are not polytheistic== ...ause...Latter-day Saints “believe they are infinitely more one than they are separate.” Indeed, they enjoy a transcendental unity of divine indwelling
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:10:Preexistent Jesus and a divinized humanity
  Mormons go so far as to insist that God was once a man just like us, which can soun [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:11:Do Mormons make too much of Jesus Christ
  ==Non-LDS Christian Stephen H. Webb: Creedal Christians in effect say the LDS make "too much of Jesus Christ"== ...cy of faith. It puts creedal Christians in the odd position of saying that Mormons make too much of Jesus
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:12:Mormons are not Arians
  ==Mormons are not Arians== [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormons reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin
  ==Non-LDS Christian Stephen H. Webb: Mormons reject the legacy of Augustine: especially of humanity's corruption due to [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:14:Joseph Smith could hold his own in early Christian debates
  ...lectualism built into Neo-Platonic thought. He would have sympathized with Christians who struggled to identify nature’s inherent goodness, but he would not ha [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:15:Christian beliefs do not need to have Neo-Platonic influence to be true
  [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]] [[Category:Interfaith issues/Sectarian anti-Mormons|Anti-Mormons: sectarian]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:16:Joseph Smith more coherent than Augustine on matter and the divine
  ==Augustine's views about matter are perhaps less coherent than Joseph Smith's== [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:17:Creedal Christians can learn from Mormon views about Jesus and creation
  ==Non-LDS Christian Stephen H. Webb: Creedal Christians can learn from LDS views about Jesus Christ and creation== ...l to what we are. These are the central questions of our time, and creedal Christians can answer them only in a self-critical and mutually beneficial dialogue wi
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:19:Vastness of Joseph Smith's theology - it is not pagan
  ...his confidence in Christ to its fullest possible expression....All things are possible not only for us but also for God, in that this universe does not e [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:20:Joseph Smith does not deny grace or claim to earn salvation
  ...ations of Smith’s theology need to be made at this point. First, Mormons are often charged with denying the efficacy of grace and thus making salvation [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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• Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:21:Joseph Smith's theosis does not supplant God or veer into polytheism
  ...God, a phrase that qualifies his alleged polytheism. Clearly, the faithful are meant to share in the divine power and glory, and thus they too will have m [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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• Question: What is the Adam-God Theory?
  ...r-day Saints do not believe Brigham's "Adam-God" teachings, critics accuse Mormons of either changing their teachings or rejecting teachings of prophets they ...with Elohim/God the Father") is not the doctrine of the Church. If there are any particles of truth to anything surrounding the Adam-God doctrine, one w
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• Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was married?
  ===Mormons don't officially believe that Jesus was married=== ...(Some believe that He was married; others believe He wasn't. Most members are open to believe either way.)
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• Question: Does the practice of baptism for the dead have ancient roots?
  ===There is considerable evidence that some early Christians and some Jewish groups performed proxy ordinance work for the salvation of ...they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
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• Question: How can Latter-day Saints reconcile having other people receive spiritual experiences that motivate them to believe in and become part of other religions?
  ...my Mormon Doubts'' (n.p.: CES Letter Foundation, 2017), 75.</ref> If they are to receive spiritual experiences motivating/telling them to believe in the ...ans 5:21]</ref> how one can rationally believe their spiritual experiences are reliable guides to truth.
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• Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the significance of Christ's death on the cross?
  ...committed by Adam, and for the individual sins of all who believe, repent, are baptized by one having authority, and who receive the Holy Ghost by the lay ...as the Redeemer of the world, and that through His death and atonement we are redeemed."<ref>Collected Discourses (1892–1893), Vol. 3, 168.</ref>
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• Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they will one day 'supplant' God?
  Some Christians claim that the doctrine of human deification is unbiblical, false, and arro ...to emulate their Heavenly Father in every way. Throughout the eternities, Mormons believe, they will reverence and worship God the Father and Jesus Christ. T
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• Question: Did Elder Dallin Oaks say that "so-called Christianity sees God as an entirely different kind of being"?
  ...n his critical book ''One Nation Under Gods'' claims that Dallin Oaks told Mormons in 1995 "that so-called Christianity sees God as an entirely different kind * Like other Christians, we believe in a heaven or paradise and a hell following mortal life, but t
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• Question: In the 1800s, did Latter-day Saints "glorify vengeance" through the singing of hymns?
  ===These hymns are a rather mild Christian apocalyptic, and do not "glorify vengeance" in any ...of supposed hymn-endorsed vengeance&mdash;and, as we have seen, even these are nothing of the sort.
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• Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian?
  ...aims that the Church has only recently been asserting its Christian status are easily proven to be false=== ..., however, that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are not "Christian," and that they have only recently claimed to be so. A relat
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• Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a "different" Jesus than "mainstream" Christians?
  ...ion: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a "different" Jesus than "mainstream" Christians?== ==="Mormon Beliefs About Jesus" versus "Christian Beliefs About Jesus": Mormons worship the Jesus Christ of the Bible===
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• Question: Why do Mormons use water instead of wine for their sacrament services?
  ==Question: Why do Mormons use water instead of wine for their sacrament services?== ===Some early Christians used both water and wine in the sacrament===
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• Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed?
  ==Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed?== ...in any reasonable sense of the term that does not also exclude most other Christians who deny the Modalist heresy===
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• Question: Why do Mormons use the Aaronic Priesthood, since Hebrews 7 states that the Aaronic/Levitical Priesthood was "changed" to the unique priesthood "after the order of Melchizedek" held by Jesus Christ?
  ==Question: Why do Mormons use the Aaronic Priesthood, since Hebrews 7 states that the Aaronic/Levitic ...Melchizedek Priesthood). They are distinguished from each other, in most Christians' eyes, as quite separate things.
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• Question: What is "blood atonement"?
  ...t, the Son of God, is efficacious for the sins of all who believe, repent, are baptized by one having authority, and receive the Holy Ghost by the laying Omitted from quotations used by the anti-Mormons were restraining clauses such as follow from Brigham Young:
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• Question: Is the Mormon doctrine of a "premortal existence" pagan, unchristian, or unbiblical, and therefore false?
  ===Some Christians present alternate interpretations of selected scriptures that fit with thei ...hile the teachings of sectarian critics may not answer these questions, we are fortunate to live in a time when the answers have been fully revealed by pr
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• Gospel Topics:Are Mormons Christian:Latter-day Saints Do Not Accept the Creeds of Post–New Testament Christianity
  [http://www.lds.org/topics/christians?lang=eng "Are Mormons Christian?,"] ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org: ...Greek philosophy.<ref>[http://www.lds.org/topics/christians?lang=eng "Are Mormons Christian?,"] ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org</ref>
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• Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that Quetzalcoatl was actually Jesus Christ?
  ...s association with a "feathered serpent" constitutes "snake worship," some Christians claim that this association is therefore inconsistent with worship of Jesus ...to the LDS, as even the critics agree that certain elements of the legend are consistent with the Book of Mormon teaching that Jesus Christ appeared in t
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• Question: How did the mainstream Christian view that God created the universe out of nothing originate?
  ...teaches that God created the universe from nothing (''ex nihilo''), while Mormons teach that God organized the universe from pre-existing matter. The LDS God ...a novel idea that altered the beliefs and doctrines of the Jews and early Christians.
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• Question: Is the Mormon temple garment simply "magic underwear"?
  Latter-day Saints are in good company with the early Christians, who used similar clothing as part of their worship. Other religions likew ...an un-Christian and unbiblical practice. (See [http://www.fairlds.org/Anti-Mormons/Street_Preachers.html here] for photos and videos of several anti-Mormon de
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• Question: Do Mormon men believe that they will become "gods of their own planets" and rule over others?
  ===Mormons believe in human deification, but what this doctrine ''means'' or entails i It is claimed by some that Mormons believe that they can push themselves higher in a type of 'celestial peckin
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• Question: Was the apostasy after Christ complete?
  ...a Restoration as taught by Joseph Smith. From the Evangelical perspective, Mormons "were the ones to initially separate their church from, in their view, ''ap ...ch organized by Christ did not persist to their day. The Latter-day Saints are not unique in this belief, nor can they be excluded from "Christianity" for
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• Source:Gospel Topics:Are Mormons Christian?:Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unequivocally affirm themselves to be Christians
  ...of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unequivocally affirm themselves to be Christians"== ...{{read more|url=http://www.lds.org/topics/christians?lang=eng}} <ref>"Are Mormons Christian?," ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org</ref>
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• Question: Do Mormon beliefs or practices exclude them from being considered Christian?
  ===Latter-day Saints are not excluded from being considered Christans by belief or practice=== When critics make the claim that Latter-day Saints are not Christian, they typically will present a laundry list of doctrines and
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• Question: Do Mormons ignore the doctrine of grace at the expense of "works"?
  ==Question: Do Mormons ignore the doctrine of grace at the expense of "works"?== ...a result most members of the Church do not expect to be saved, since they are not "good enough."
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• Question: Do Mormons believe that salvation is based upon works?
  ==Question: Do Mormons believe that salvation is based upon works?== Evangelical Christians claim that salvation comes through "faith alone" (''sola fide'') and they a
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• Question: Does the Bible alone contain all necessary or essential knowledge to assure salvation, thus making the Book of Mormon and modern prophets unnecessary?
  ...ditional scripture (such as the [[Book_of_Mormon_basics |Book of Mormon]]) are unnecessary or even blasphemous. * ignores that the Biblical canon is not unanimous among Christians, and ignores non-canonical books which the Bible itself cites as being auth
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• Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/General Questions
  |L=Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/General Questions |H=Response to "Difficult Questions for Mormons: General Questions"
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• Question: Why do some New Testament phrases appear in the Book of Mormon?
  * This is a fairly trivial phrase; there are multiple examples in 19th century and modern works of the phrase "I have se And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, '''These''' are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and
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• Question: How is Mormon belief compatible with Isaiah's statement that beside the Lord "there is no God?"
  ===These scriptures in Isaiah clearly are meant to assert the supremacy, authority, and superiority of Yahweh over no ...ead_and_the_Trinity|Godhead]] and belief in [[Deification of man|theosis]] are not compatible with multiple statements in Isaiah that "beside [the Lord] t
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• Question: Do Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") consider Jesus to be the brother of Satan?
  ==Question: Do Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") consider Jesus to be the brother of Satan?== ...revere Satan, and are thus not true "[[Latter-day_Saints_aren't_Christians|Christians]]."
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• Question: Do Mormons believe that everyone else will be "damned"?
  ==Question: Do Mormons believe that everyone else will be "damned"?== ===Mormons believe that almost all people will receive a greater salvation than they a
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• Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About LDS Prophets
  |L=Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About LDS Prophets |H=Response to "50 Questions to Ask Mormons: Questions About LDS Prophets"
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• Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About LDS Scripture (excluding the Bible)
  |L=Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About LDS Scripture (excluding the Bible) |H=Response to "50 Questions to Ask Mormons: Questions About LDS Scripture (excluding the Bible)"
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• Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About the Bible
  |L=Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About the Bible |H=Response to "50 Questions to Ask Mormons: Questions About the Bible"
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• Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Miscellaneous, General Questions
  |L=Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Miscellaneous, General Questions |H=Response to "50 Questions to Ask Mormons: Miscellaneous / General Questions"
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• Question: Are Elohim and Jehovah the same deity?
  ==Question: Are Elohim and Jehovah the same deity?== ...#35 4:35]; [http://scriptures.lds.org/deut/6/4#4 6:4]) as proof that these are different titles for the same God. <ref> This article was originally derive
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• Question: Was the priesthood held by Jesus priesthood not 'transferable' to members of the Church?
  ...on of these sources.</ref> Claims that the priesthood is not transferable are not supported by the Biblical text. Rather, the priesthood is a permanent ...ment 'yields a good sense' suggests that those who choose that translation are probably doing so for theological reasons, not grammatical or linguistic re
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise/Introduction
  ...ant portions of the Bible that Smith taught had been corrupted by Jews and Christians" |L5=Response to claim: xxv - Mormons abstain from alcohol and tobacco, as many other groups do, but also from ca
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise/Chapter 19
  ...nse to claims made in "Chapter 19: Are Mormons Christians? Are Non-Mormons Christians?" ...ade in Mormon America "Chapter 19: Are Mormons Christians? Are Non-Mormons Christians?"
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• Question: If Mormons don't drink coffee and tea because it contains caffeine, then why do they consume other products which contain caffeine?
  ==Question: If Mormons don't drink coffee and tea because it contains caffeine, then why do they c ...Word of Wisdom itself gives no indication of the reasons these substances are to be avoided—it only states that they should be. While avoiding caffeine
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• Question: What does the term "anti-Mormon" mean?
  ===Those who are "Anti-" some thing oppose and fight against that thing=== ...t "against" Mormons, but only write and act as they do because they "love" Mormons or Mormon investigators and want to bring them to the truth.
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• Question: Are Mormons "anti-Christian" or "anti-another faith"?
  ==Question: Are Mormons "anti-Christian" or "anti-another faith"?== ===It makes no more sense for Mormons to be "anti-Christian" than it would for Pennsylvanians to be "anti-America
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• Question: Did the "Cochranites" influence Joseph Smith or other Mormons to introduce plural marriage into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
  ==Question: Did the "Cochranites" influence Joseph Smith or other Mormons to introduce plural marriage into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...they have distilled from longer lists of things Church leaders then denied are mentioned.<ref>Brian Hales, "[http://rationalfaiths.com/10620/ A Review of
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• Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith make derogatory racial comments in the 22 October 1963 issue of Look magazine?
  ...want you to believe that we bear any animosity toward the Negro. "Darkies" are wonderful people, and they have their place in our church. ...he abysmal history of most of Christianity's dealings on race issues. They are obviously hoping their target audience will not notice that Latter-day Sain
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• Question: What is "cognitive dissonance" and how does it relate to Mormonism?
  ...ly, most fair-minded people realize that—just as in any religion—there are intelligent, well-informed people who become or remain members of the Churc ...re "rational" and which are "false" or "irrational." In doing so, the dice are loaded from the start since it's the critics' epistemological assumptions t
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• Question: Is there a YouTube cartoon which was "banned by the Mormon church"?
  The non-denomination National Council of Christians and Jews wrote: ...ppears to us to be a basically unfair and untruthful presentation of what Mormons really believe and practice.
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• Polyandry and Joseph Smith: sealings to women with living husbands
  ...d not anticipate having faithful family to whom they could be sealed. The Mormons' anticipation of an imminent end to the world may have heightened the sense There are [[Was Apostle Orson Hyde sent on a mission to dedicate Israel so that Josep
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• Mormonism and the nature of God/Early beliefs
  |S=Some evangelical Christians attempt to show that the LDS idea of deification is unbiblical, unchristian |L1=Question: What is the historic church's concept of the Trinity and why do Mormons reject it?
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• Times and Seasons/2/16
  ...ty of the saints, and prefer the prosperity of Zion to your chief joy, and are willing to suffer affliction with the people of God, then we can hail you w ...t High, but there are others, and we presume an overwhelming majority, who are honorable and virtuous
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• Times and Seasons/2/17
  We are happy to say that this building is progressing in a manner which does honor ...d representations of that animal, and do great credit to the mechanics who are engaged in carving the same. It is intended to overlay them with gold, and
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• Times and Seasons/2/19
  ...heir mights, for a great work remains to be accomplished, and the laborers are but few. If the Lord's people be a willing people in the day of his power, "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people,
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• Times and Seasons/2/20
  ...as lively stones are built up a spiritual house, and holy priesthood." We are told in John's Gospel, xv. 16, that Christ ordained his apostles; and of co ...riests of the lower order of priesthood, then teachers, and deacons, which are appendages to that priesthood. All these officers combined, form that spiri
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• Times and Seasons/2/21
  His sudden demise is a faithful monitor, to us who remain, that "in life we are in the midst of death;" it therefore, becomes us to be always ready, for in ...ion, and of becoming more perfectly acquainted with those principles which are necessary to be acted upon, in order that they may become highly useful in
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• Times and Seasons/2/23
  ...hailed him as a companion to the Oriental Continent; but my hopes of that are fled. I shall go alone, or find some other person in all probability to go ...d; it fills the mind with wonder astonishment, and admiration: How welcome are the rays of the morning light, after the shades of darkness have clothed th
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• Times and Seasons/3/3
  ...ability shall outlast them all, or in other words continue when all others are overthrown, and their names in a measure faded into oblivion. ...e in the latter-days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are: (As for thee, O King, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what s
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• Times and Seasons/3/10
  ...many great ones, which were near unto it; and the Lord said unto me, these are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is n ...st. And it is given unto thee, to know the set time of all the stars, that are set to give light, until thou come near unto the throne of God.
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• Times and Seasons/3/11
  |L9=NAUVOO AND THE MORMONS. ...gathering of the Saints, and tend to ameliorate the condition of those who are strugling [struggling] with poverty, and distress, in this day when the usu
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• Times and Seasons/3/14
  |L11=THE MORMONS IN BOSTON AND VICINITY. |L12=THE MORMONS-JOE SMITH, THE PROPHET.
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• Times and Seasons/3/16
  ...colored beast"-"anti-Christ"-"the man of sin," &c. Indeed, her principles are so abominably wicked, and so manifestly corrupt, that the thinking mind is ...d their priesthood and ordinances from the mother church. If the Catholics are false, then Protestantism has no foundation. Luther derived his authority f
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• Times and Seasons/3/18
  ...ctrines of the established orthodox churches. I replied as follows:-"There are so many different kinds of orthodox doctrines, all differing one from the o ...You receive a salary from a home institution, and by that institution you are directed to remain here whether the people will hear or not; whereas the Sa
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• Times and Seasons/4/8
  ...hear record of better things, and place me in the front ranks of those who are known to do good for the sake of goodness, and show all liars, hypocrites; ...ries the sacrifice of human life. The nations and tribes of the negro race are very numerous, and the interior of their country has scarcely, if ever
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• Times and Seasons/4/9
  |L10=What Do The Mormons Believe. ...he industrious bee, it has gathered honey from every flower, and its pages are now read with interest by a large, and respectable number of subscribers.
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• Times and Seasons/5/11
  ...ency at the next election; and as the Latter Day Saints, (sometimes called Mormons, who now constitute a numerous class in the school politic of this vast rep ...ice, I must go into it free and unfettered, with no guarantees but such as are to be drawn from my whole life, character and conduct.
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• Times and Seasons/5/16
  ...esspasses, [trespasses] even so I the Lord forgive you; nevertheless there are those among you who have sinned exceedingly; yea, even all of you have sinn ...ips, every man according to his wants and his needs, inasmuch as his wants are just: and all this for the benefit of the church of the living God, that ev
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• Times and Seasons/5/17
  ...ought to be sufficient, for children soon become men and women. Yes, they are they that must follow us, and perform the duties which, not only appertain ...nt out the events that shall take place in our day and age: of these there are many, both in the Old and New Testament. They speak plainly of great things
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• Times and Seasons/5/22
  ...us; for though our brethren in Zion, indulge in feelings towards us, which are not according to the requirements of the new covenant; yet, we have the sat ...or humility and great faith lest we be ashamed in his presence. Our hearts are greatly grieved at the spirit which is breathed, both in your letter, and t
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• Times and Seasons/5/23
  ...se, adapted to the capacity of the weak and the weakest of all saints, who are or can be called saints. ...all sick cattle, to be used with judgment and skill. And again hot drinks are not for the body, or belly.
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• Times and Seasons/5/24
  ...he voice of the church; and if an elder, or a high priest be present, they are to take the lead in managing the business; but if not, such as have the hig ...nd again, those in debt, should in all cases pay their debts; and the rich are in no wise to cast out the poor, or leave them behind, for it is said that
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• Times and Seasons/4/11
  ...he industrious bee, it has gathered honey from every flower, and its pages are now read with interest by a large, and respectable number of subscribers. ...on; to do it not, is destruction; and that more speedy and awful than many are aware of. If the saints would do this with all their might and means; Nauvo
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• Times and Seasons/4/2
  |L6=MORMONS, OR LATTER DAY SAINTS |L8=THE MORMONS
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• Times and Seasons/4/14
  ...that a state has nothing to do with religion, and that all forms of faith are equally right, or equally wrong; having for its founders two miserable men, ...tely published in the STAR, in the fifth lecture on faith; and those views are not the results of human ingenuity or fanciful theory, but what the Lord ha
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• Times and Seasons/4/15
  ...eard, and he will answer their prayers with vengeance. The cries of misery are wafted on every gale, while confusion, distress and mourning, pervades ever ...urrounded with the groans and sighs of an agonizing multitude of pretended christians, in the most excruciating agony of both body and mind, while from the thron
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• Times and Seasons/4/18
  ...use people feared their political influence. And what was said against the Mormons was only to justify the mob in the eyes of the world for the course they ha ...nd vicinity. Houses are going up in every direction in the city, and farms are being enclosed without. "The wilderness will" soon "blossom as the rose."
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• Times and Seasons/4/23
  ...fore the world was made, the same which knoweth all things, for all things are present before mine eyes: I am the same which spake and the world was made, But behold, verily, verily I say unto you, that mine eyes are upon you; I am in your midst and ye cannot see me, but the day soon cometh
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• Question: Do the temple endowment's similarities to Masonic rites have ancient roots?
  ...(see D&C 88:41, 130:7)...According to latter-day revelation, heavenly eyes are said to represent one who is filled with 'light and knowledge' (D&C 77:4). ...comparisons between the life of Jesus Christ and the life of the bee. Some Christians even saw the bee as a symbol of the soul of man.<ref>Hilda M. Ransome, ''Th
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• Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology?
  ...tions of [our] fathers, which lead [us] away into a belief of things which are not so.”<ref>[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/a ...ang=eng Ether 3:16]</ref> yet when the spirit and body are connected, they are intimately and intricately intertwined in a continuum from more flesh to mo
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• Differences in First Vision accounts
  = What differences are there between Joseph Smith's 1832 First Vision account and later accounts? ...a specific death that seemed to be associated with it. In addition, there are newspaper articles talking of large-scale revival activity in the larger re
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• Reference templates/FARMS Review/Volume 19
  ...A Response To Michael:FARMS Review:2007|L]]||[[Template:Bokovoy:Ye Really Are Gods A Response To Michael:FARMS Review:2007:Short|S]] ...ARMS Review:2007|L]]||[[Template:Coutts:Disarray Revisited Review Of Early Christians In Disarray:FARMS Review:2007:Short|S]]
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